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	<title>Oral Cancer News &#187; DNA</title>
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		<title>New biomarker technique could provide early detection for cancer</title>
		<link>http://oralcancernews.org/wp/new-biomarker-technique-could-provide-early-detection-for-cancer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 May 2010 03:29:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Oral Cancer Foundation News Team</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[biomarker]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[DNA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[early detection]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IL-6]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[interleukin-6]]></category>
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Source: www.physorg.com
Author: press release provided by University of Connecticut
Modern genetic testing can predict your risk of contracting particular diseases based on predispositions discovered in your DNA. But what if similar biotechnology could tell you that you’ve got a disease before you notice any symptoms? What if it could even tell you, before any signs of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alcohol&#8217;s hidden effects revealed in new National Health Service campaign</title>
		<link>http://oralcancernews.org/wp/alcohols-hidden-effects-revealed-in-new-national-health-service-campaign/</link>
		<comments>http://oralcancernews.org/wp/alcohols-hidden-effects-revealed-in-new-national-health-service-campaign/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 01:58:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Oral Cancer Foundation News Team</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[acetaldehyde]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[alcohol]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[DNA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[drinking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[larynx]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[oesophagus]]></category>
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Source: www.medicalnewstoday.com
Author: staff 
A new 6 million pound NHS campaign to reveal alcohol&#8217;s hidden effects warns people of the unseen damage caused by regularly drinking more than the advised limits and highlights drinkers&#8217; affected organs while they sup their drink in the pub or at home.
The campaign was launched recently by Public Health Minister, Gillian [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New test genetically fingerprints tumors</title>
		<link>http://oralcancernews.org/wp/new-test-genetically-fingerprints-tumors/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Feb 2010 05:29:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Oral Cancer Foundation News Team</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Oral Cancer News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[biomarker]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CT scan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[DNA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[genetic code]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[personalized medicine]]></category>
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Source: online.wsj.com
Author: Ron Winslow
In a fresh advance for the burgeoning field of personalized medicine, researchers have developed a blood test based on the DNA of tumors that could help tailor treatment for individual cancer patients.
The report, announced Thursday, represents one of the most tangible examples yet of how the ability to sequence a person&#8217;s entire [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Human papillomavirus, p16 and p53 expression associated with survival of head and neck cancer</title>
		<link>http://oralcancernews.org/wp/human-papillomavirus-p16-and-p53-expression-associated-with-survival-of-head-and-neck-cancer/</link>
		<comments>http://oralcancernews.org/wp/human-papillomavirus-p16-and-p53-expression-associated-with-survival-of-head-and-neck-cancer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Feb 2010 17:22:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Oral Cancer Foundation News Team</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[DNA]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[molecular pathways]]></category>
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Source: 7thspace.com
Author: staff
P16 and p53 protein expression, and high-risk human papillomavirus (HPV-HR) types have been associated with survival in head and neck cancer (HNC). Evidence suggests that multiple molecular pathways need to be targeted to improve the poor prognosis of HNC.
Purpose:
This study examined the individual and joint effects of tumor markers for differences in predicting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New DNA therapy for advanced mouth cancer</title>
		<link>http://oralcancernews.org/wp/new-dna-therapy-for-advanced-mouth-cancer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Feb 2010 16:42:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Oral Cancer Foundation News Team</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[antisense]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[DNA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[EGFR]]></category>
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Source: www.dentistry.co.uk
Author: staff
A research team has been awarded a patent after developing a new DNA therapy for head and neck cancer sufferers. Researchers from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine in the US,  aims to develop a safe and effective alternative to standard chemotherapy treatments which cause debilitating side-effects.
Based on a form of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>HPV-associated base of tongue squamous cell carcinoma incidence increasing in Sweden</title>
		<link>http://oralcancernews.org/wp/hpv-associated-base-of-tongue-squamous-cell-carcinoma-incidence-increasing-in-sweden/</link>
		<comments>http://oralcancernews.org/wp/hpv-associated-base-of-tongue-squamous-cell-carcinoma-incidence-increasing-in-sweden/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Feb 2010 05:20:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Oral Cancer Foundation News Team</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[base of tongue]]></category>
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Source: www.hemonctoday.com
Author: staff
The incidence for base of tongue squamous cell carcinoma increased significantly in Sweden between 1998 and 2007, and by 2007, more than 80% of these cases were HPV-positive.
Various studies during the past 20 years have indicated that HPV is a risk factor for oropharyngeal cancer. However, few studies have assessed the specific sub-sites [...]]]></description>
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		<title>1,000: the magic number in genomic research</title>
		<link>http://oralcancernews.org/wp/1000-the-magic-number-in-genomic-research/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 04:15:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Oral Cancer Foundation News Team</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Oral Cancer News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[DNA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[genomes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[genomic research]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://oralcancernews.org/wp/?p=7693</guid>
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Source: www.minnpost.com
Aurhor: Sharon Schmickle
The number 1,000 is emerging as a standard benchmark on the frontiers of genomic research.
In the 1000 Genomes Project  — launched two years ago — American, British, Chinese and German scientists are sequencing the genomes of some 1,000 individuals from around the world in order to aid medical research as it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Liverpool scientists working on vaccine for mouth cancer</title>
		<link>http://oralcancernews.org/wp/liverpool-scientists-working-on-vaccine-for-mouth-cancer/</link>
		<comments>http://oralcancernews.org/wp/liverpool-scientists-working-on-vaccine-for-mouth-cancer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jan 2010 15:31:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Oral Cancer Foundation News Team</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Oral Cancer News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[DNA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[HPV]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://oralcancernews.org/wp/?p=7689</guid>
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Source: www.liverpoolecho.co.uk
Author:  Liza Williams
ONE central project the scientists and doctors are working on is a vaccine for mouth cancer. Liverpool researchers have found some cases are caused by the HPV virus – the same bug which causes cervical cancer. They have discovered that two-thirds of tonsil cancer tumour samples showed evidence of the HPV-16 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Scientists decode entire genetic code of cancer</title>
		<link>http://oralcancernews.org/wp/scientists-decode-entire-genetic-code-of-cancer/</link>
		<comments>http://oralcancernews.org/wp/scientists-decode-entire-genetic-code-of-cancer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2009 02:52:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Oral Cancer Foundation News Team</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Oral Cancer News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[blood tests]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[DNA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[genetic code]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lung cancer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[melanoma]]></category>
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Source: www.popsci.com
Author: Jeremy Hsu

And cigarette smokers get a free mutation in every pack 

In a major step toward understanding cancer, one of the biggest problems bedeviling modern medicine, scientists have now cracked the genetic code for two of the most common cancers. This marks just the beginning of an international effort to catalog all the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Microarray technologies in the diagnosis and treatment of head and neck cancer</title>
		<link>http://oralcancernews.org/wp/microarray-technologies-in-the-diagnosis-and-treatment-of-head-and-neck-cancer/</link>
		<comments>http://oralcancernews.org/wp/microarray-technologies-in-the-diagnosis-and-treatment-of-head-and-neck-cancer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 04:36:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Oral Cancer Foundation News Team</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[complementary DNA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[DNA]]></category>
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Source: emedicine.medscape.com
Authors: Perminder S Parmar, MD et al.
Introduction
Since the draft sequence of the human genome was published in 2001 (Lander, 2001), the Cancer Genome Anatomy Project index of tumor genes has classified more than 40,000 genes directly or indirectly involved in one or more cancers (Strausberg, 2001; Strausberg, 2000). Conventional techniques of gene investigation in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>At our throats</title>
		<link>http://oralcancernews.org/wp/at-our-throats/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 20:20:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Oral Cancer Foundation News Team</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Oral Cancer News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[alcohol]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cervical cancer]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[DNA]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://oralcancernews.org/wp/?p=6982</guid>
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Source: www.forbes.com
Author: Matthew Herper
Oncologist Maura Gillison was looking for patients with tonsil cancer for a clinical study several years ago. The first enlisted was a malpractice lawyer, followed by a doctor, then a scientist. She joked to a colleague that all she needed was a rear admiral. In walked a member of the military brass. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DNA test could be key to targeting treatments for head and neck cancer</title>
		<link>http://oralcancernews.org/wp/dna-test-could-be-key-to-targeting-treatments-for-head-and-neck-cancer/</link>
		<comments>http://oralcancernews.org/wp/dna-test-could-be-key-to-targeting-treatments-for-head-and-neck-cancer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 04:04:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Oral Cancer Foundation News Team</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Oral Cancer News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[DNA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gene expression]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[HPV-16]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://oralcancernews.org/wp/?p=6943</guid>
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Source: news.biocompare.com
Author: staff
It is estimated that more than 7,000 people are diagnosed with head and neck cancer each year in the UK and approximately 3,500 cases result in death. These cancers include tumours of the mouth, lips, throat and voice-box, and some have been linked to the sexually transmitted infection, HPV-16. Scientists at Liverpool analysed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Identification of highly radiosensitive patients may lead to side effect-free radiotherapy</title>
		<link>http://oralcancernews.org/wp/identification-of-highly-radiosensitive-patients-may-lead-to-side-effect-free-radiotherapy/</link>
		<comments>http://oralcancernews.org/wp/identification-of-highly-radiosensitive-patients-may-lead-to-side-effect-free-radiotherapy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 14:50:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Oral Cancer Foundation News Team</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Oral Cancer News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[DNA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dose]]></category>
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Source: www.ecancermedicalscience.com
Author: staff
An international group of scientists has taken the first step on the road to targeting radiotherapy dosage to individual patients by means of their genetic characteristics, a radiation oncologist told Europe’s largest cancer congress, ECCO 15 – ESMO 34, in Berlin today. Professor Dirk de Ruysscher, from Maastricht University Medical Centre, Maastricht, The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Perceptronix Reports Clinical Study Underway to Evaluate OralAdvance(TM) for Early Detection of Oral Cancer</title>
		<link>http://oralcancernews.org/wp/perceptronix-reports-clinical-study-underway-to-evaluate-oraladvancetm-for-early-detection-of-oral-cancer-2/</link>
		<comments>http://oralcancernews.org/wp/perceptronix-reports-clinical-study-underway-to-evaluate-oraladvancetm-for-early-detection-of-oral-cancer-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 09 May 2009 01:56:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Oral Cancer Foundation News Team</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Oral Cancer News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[BC Cancer Agency]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[DNA]]></category>
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Source: www.earthtimes.org
Author: press release
Perceptronix Medical Inc. announces that a clinical study of OralAdvance(TM), a test for the early detection of oral cancer, is now underway. The clinical study will assess the performance of OralAdvance(TM) compared to the gold standard biopsy and histology for its ability to differentiate between visually suspicious oral lesions with cancer or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>HPV data may aid vaccine&#8217;s effectiveness</title>
		<link>http://oralcancernews.org/wp/hpv-data-may-aid-vaccines-effectiveness-2/</link>
		<comments>http://oralcancernews.org/wp/hpv-data-may-aid-vaccines-effectiveness-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2009 16:08:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Oral Cancer Foundation News Team</dc:creator>
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Source: health.usnews.com
Author: staff
The majority of invasive cervical cancers in New Mexico in the 1980s and 1990s contained DNA from human papillomavirus type 16 (HPV16) and HPV type 18 (HPV18), says a new study. It also found that women diagnosed with HPV16- or HPV18-positive cancers were an average of five years younger than those diagnosed with [...]]]></description>
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